Taxes and Public Spending
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SIEPR survey: Californians weigh in on home insurance crisis, economic outlook
Uncertainty about how to fix a faltering home insurance market was one of several findings from the 成人大片 Institute for Economic Policy Research鈥檚 survey of California consumers
April 25, 2025
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The new field of 鈥榞eoeconomics鈥 offers a guide for the perplexed. Financial Times highlights a new paper from Senior Fellow Matteo Maggiori that outlines the growing field.
April 21, 2025
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Alan Sykes, an expert on the law and economics of international trade, joins 成人大片 Law School podcast 成人大片 Legal to break down Trump's tariffs.
April 16, 2025
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More than half a trillion dollars in tax revenue goes uncollected every year. A study led by SIEPR Senior Fellow Rebecca Lester uncovers the missing revenue at stake.
April 14, 2025
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Study: Women take 鈥榮ubstantial鈥 earnings hit during menopause
New research from 成人大片 economist Petra Persson is one of the first to examine the economic toll of menopause, which affects one-fifth of the nation鈥檚 workforce.
March 24, 2025
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Large-scale investment in research needed to maintain US agriculture
SIEPR Senior Fellow David Lobell examines how U.S. agriculture productivity has been declining amid impacts of climate change and estimates the public R&D needed to reverse course.
March 14, 2025
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Could AI exuberance overheat the economy?
Chicago Fed鈥檚 Austan Goolsbee enthralled and enlightened as he opined on tariffs, AI鈥檚 surge, Silicon Valley Bank鈥檚 collapse, and more at the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit.
March 06, 2025
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Jamie Dimon on the US, global economic outlook: 鈥業t鈥檚 all inflationary鈥
True to form, the JPMorgan Chase CEO didn鈥檛 hold back at the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit when discussing geopolitical risks, the 鈥楬ollywood Squares鈥 of remote work, AI, and more.
March 06, 2025
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Jonathan Levin: 鈥楬ow can we run the university more effectively?鈥
At the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit, 成人大片鈥檚 president reflected on the challenges facing higher education amid efforts to cut research funding and raise taxes on endowments.
March 06, 2025
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We鈥檙e still learning from Silicon Valley Bank鈥檚 failure
Q&A: SIEPR senior fellows Peter DeMarzo and Arvind Krishnamurthy discuss their research that offers a new take on what happens to bank balance sheets when interest rates rise.
February 25, 2025
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Does health insurance create jobs?
A new study by SIEPR senior fellow Maria Polyakova sheds important new light on a key question in health care economics.
February 20, 2025
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New research reveals striking variations in pandemic recovery among U.S. school districts
SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon co-led an analysis that finds widening achievement gaps but also pockets of success in regaining pre-pandemic achievement levels.
February 11, 2025
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SIEPR launches survey of Californians on the economy and government
The first California Economic Survey found residents were more upbeat about the economy, immigration and AI than the U.S. overall at year end. Will wildfires and Trump change that?
February 07, 2025
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Contributions of SIEPR scholars in the Economic Report of the President
The 2025 report tapped the work of our scholars in its assessment of pressing economic policy issues ranging from global financial markets to remote work.
February 03, 2025
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Economic lookahead: What to expect on the global, US and California stages
Buckle up. With President Trump planning big changes for U.S. economic policy, SIEPR scholars go beyond the headlines to identify key issues everyone should be thinking about.
January 27, 2025
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Easing the scarring effects of mass layoffs
Research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Michael Blank sheds light on the impacts of job losses and the trade-offs between unemployment insurance and job retention policies.
January 17, 2025
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Mapping the maze where the IRS could find billions in unpaid taxes
SIEPR senior fellows Rebecca Lester and Daniel Ho are untangling the incredibly complex corporate structures some taxpayers use to reduce their tax bills.
October 30, 2024
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The future of global trade: 鈥榃hat鈥檚 going to hurt the U.S. is the U.S.鈥
Top experts on trade gathered at 成人大片 to discuss how American protectionism is reshaping the world economy and what to expect from a Trump or Harris administration.
October 29, 2024
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American innovation got slammed by the 鈥渢emporary鈥 end of a key tax incentive
A tax rule that was never supposed to go into effect has led U.S. companies to slash their R&D spending, SIEPR Senior Fellow Rebecca Lester finds.
October 25, 2024
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A team of economists, including SIEPR's Hunt Allcott, has taken on a central component of the Inflation Reduction Act: the $7,500 tax credit for U.S.-made electric vehicles.
October 07, 2024